Organizers spent two months planning a secretive gathering of musicians, aerialists and poets in the middle of the bosque. On Saturday night, the lights were strung, a baby and an older man danced together in front of the stage and a band started the first drumbeats of a song. And then the cops showed up.
In a perfect world, people would give and take from each other freely, according to Bosque Lights co-organizer Cameron James.
Daniel Reeves was ambushed in the jungle of Vietnam, had an out-of-body experience, achieved enlightenment through Buddhism and now makes transformative art.
Punk outfit Aficionado is just as likely to rock out with a flute and piano as with an electric guitar and a microphone.
When Jane Austen first wrote “Pride and Prejudice” in 1813, it was a rip-roaringly modern tale. Its fascinating, complex setting — the upper-class English society of the early 1800s — has largely disappeared in the two centuries since. Yet the novel itself has only grown in popularity, becoming a literary classic.
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Los Angeles-based architect Filipa Valente built bright orange plastic shells to go along with the “machine wilderness” theme at this year’s International Symposium on Electronic Art.
Psychedelic musician Tom Jennings adjusted his prescription goggles before flipping the switch on his radioactive experiment.
The sounds of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” echoed through the halls of the Immanuel Presbyterian Church in Nob Hill last Tuesday.
For 30 minutes, Professor Jessamyn Lovell’s art class was a pack of cannibals.
“My style is rocker-ish — I like to combine skater and rocker styles.” Pope’s style is geek-rock, with a nod to skater style.
The Filling Station, one of Albuquerque’s more intimate theater spaces, is an unlikely candidate to portray the sweep, scope and scale of the Battle of Gettysburg, the bloodiest conflict of the American Civil War.
If you spent too much money getting your writer friend to do your English paper for you, or sending someone to take a math test in your stead, your pockets might be a little empty. Just kidding, nobody actually cheats on anything … right? But the empty pockets remain. To patch them up, check out some of this week’s freebies.
Tea master Jessica Heintzleman dunks a 6-inch tea bag into a small pot as steam smothers her white bonnet.
St. James Tearoom imports its teas from China and India, but you can grow your own in your backyard.
Abitha’s Apothecary doesn’t sell pill bottles and cough syrup — the walls are lined with spells to help spell-makers get out of jail, have children and win money.
It was late one night in 1998 when Donna and her boyfriend Daniel scaled the abandoned Albuquerque High building to look over the city.
If you finished all your homework for the week on Sunday — because every student is that on top of it — then you’re probably at a loss for what to do with yourself during the week. Luckily, the Daily Lobo can rescue you from your proactive nature by giving you some free ways to waste time. Don’t worry, you’ll still get straight A’s.
I like my theater bleak and waiting to die. The type that breaks down into the best of dark despairs: naked, horrifying tragedy and the fatalism of a crippling reality. “Death of a Salesman” is all of that.
We get it — you’re trying to be cool by not participating in anything on campus. But all you’ve got to show for it are some thumbs calloused by a video-game controller, plus a seriously damaged liver.
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